This is the first board I’ve ever shaped! I am SUPER STOKED with it and hope it surfs well too. Fins installation hopefully taking place this week and it’ll be ready for a slap or two, I can’t wait to paddle out on it! I’m dying to answer questions about it and hear what you think.
Congrats on your first board, and welcome to Swaylocks! Got any more pics of the work in progress?
Thanks Huckleberry. I do have pics of it in progress. I can’t seem to post pics consistently like you did, full sized and oriented correctly, is there a trick to it?
Nice that board should work great at Pavilions or even the Cove when its good. I spent a few years surfing south texas lived in Corpus. Great times and fun waves. The fish is the call for most of the waves in Texas thats for sure.
Looks great for a first board. Now go drop those plugs and sand to surf tonight! Enjoy
Hey Jeli,
Nice board, esp for a first go! Congrats and welcome!
nice board … can u put more pics please?
what about the size?looks wide and thick … it’ll paddle well.
what about the tail n nose rocker?
I use third party picture hosting (flickr - but there are plenty others, and most are free). I right click the photo and get the "properties", then I copy the URL and paste it in the little window that comes up with the picture icon.
For one of your pics, I just got the URL and used it with the photo icon. The other pic was upside down, so I saved it, and then uploaded it to my flickr account, which allowed me to rotate it. Then I used the URL from my flickr page - that's why the pics are slightly different sizes.
After you write your post scroll down and look for "file attachments". Click on file attachments and post a photo just like you would on an E-mail. No thumb nails ,no 3rd party photo sites. And I'm good in the Lab but not so good with computers......Ray....learned it on Swaylocks.com...
and for some reason on the first post things go heywire...so reply to a post and attach your photos. I've also found that posting 1-2 photos at a time works better than posting a whole bunch all at once
Hey guys thanks for a warm welcome and the advice, hopefully Sway will cooperate for me. Sanolocal I’d love to surf the places you mentioned however I live in MA, my displayed location is not correct, another example of sway misbehaving. I am hoping this board lives up to my expectations as my go-to-board for my local breaks for knee to shoulder high swell. I built this board to be nearly indestructible. Epoxy, 3/8" stringer, 2 layers 6oz. s-cloth top and bottom. Its a bit hefty, you could call it a tank. I felt it imperative seeing this is the first board I’ve shaped that I experienced the entire process of board building including fabricating my blank. The blank is XPS insulation foam laminated together with gorilla glue. In hindsight gorilla glue was a poor choice because once cured it is much tougher than the foam surrounding it which made shaping these seams quite difficult. Now with all that prefacing out of the way I’ll give you what you want.
Dimensions are 5’6"x16"x17", 21" max width, 2 3/4" max thickness, 3 1/4" nose rocker, 0 tail… real flat[img_assist|nid=1064735|title=Started as…|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=640|height=480]
[img_assist|nid=1064736|title=Rocker roughed in|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=640|height=480][img_assist|nid=1064737|title=Prelim shaping complete|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=640|height=480][img_assist|nid=1064738|title=Ready for glassing|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=640|height=480]
Almost forgot, chined nose full rail blending to a slight tuck-under rail to a sharp rail in the last 14 inches